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In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, Sakichi Toyoda Memorial House manager Tadashi Kanzaki walks by the the renovated house where Sakichi Toyoda, father of Toyota Motor Corp. founder Kiichiro Toyoda and great-grandfather of current President Akio Toyoda, was born, in the compound of the memorial house in Kosai, central Japan. Sakichi Toyoda invented the automatic loom in a backyard shed, mainly because he wanted to help his mother, who often was weaving in their home. Those around him, in
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